Labour’s Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse candidate silent on Starmer’s cuts

by Katy Loudon
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8 hours ago
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Campaigning in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, the SNP’s candidate Katy Loudon has called out the “deafening silence” on Labour’s broken promises by both Anas Sarwar and Labour’s by-election candidate.

Only this week 14 Labour MSPs voted to support the latest round of Labour cuts which are expected to push 250,000 people into poverty. Not only did those Labour MSPs vote to support cuts but eight others failed to vote at all – including Anas Sarwar himself.

So far, the Labour candidate in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election has not spoken out against Labour cuts which will harm countless families in the constituency.

He’s also been silent on Labour’s record in government which includes:

  • Cutting £4.8 billion of disability payments to vulnerable households
  • Promising to cut energy bills by £300 but instead overseeing an increase of almost £300
  • Maintaining the two-child cap which is pushing 15,000 Scottish children into poverty
  • Scrapping the Winter Fuel Payment from 900,000 pensioners
  • Saving British Steel in Scunthorpe but treating Grangemouth as an afterthought

Katy Loudon said that Anas Sarwar’s silence over the Labour Party’s broken promises proves that neither he, nor his party, can be trusted to do right by the people of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse.

She described how in government, Labour has maintained the awful two child cap, taken away vital payments from pensioners and overseen soaring household bills – and all within a matter of months.

“Astonishingly, Labour MSPs are in lockstep with their London bosses – with most of their MSPs  backing the £5 billion of Labour cuts to disability support while others, like Sarwar, avoided voting altogether”, she went on to say.

She added: “The people of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse deserve better than a Labour candidate who will look the other way, like Anas Sarwar.

“A fairer Scotland, free from Westminster cuts, is possible under the SNP, and I will be taking that message to doorsteps across Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse.”